It had been a while since Richard had really had the time to sit around and read a good book, between his job as a Park Ranger and his work as a Negaverse Captain his time just seemed to evaporate for a while there. It did not help that the summer had hit a few record highs in some of the forest area's leading to the threat of wildfire so everyone on payroll had to keep a very close eye out just in case. Richard himself had caught at least three groups of teens and young adults smoking or leaving an untended camp fire in the drier area's of the park.

Thankfully it seemed like there was finally some relief to both the heat and the dryness as for the past few weeks it's been raining fairly often. The wildfire worry had been cut down drastically, at least on of the groups Richard had caught ended up offering penance by way of their energy and souls to the Negaverse, and Richard was finally getting some time off. Time he was taking advantage of by laying spread out across his couch with a book propped up to read and Lexus doing her best to become a furry white scarf happily.

He was halfway through the fourth chapter, at a rather delicate scene, when he phone went off in his pocket causing Lexus to give a huff into his ear. "Hush." He said with a small smile on his face as he temporarily set the book down and dug out his phone. The smile dropped as he saw it was a bounce back of a text he had sent earlier making it the fourth time his text or email wouldn't go through to the other person in the past two days. "Guess he doesn't want to talk any more huh Lex?" He muttered as he tucked the phone away with a sigh.

He tried to go back to his book but for the next few minutes he spent looking at the page without seeing the words, questioning if the reason Kit had stopped talking to him was because of how busy he had been or if something happened to the young man but unless he had more clues as to which he would be left without any answers. "Probably got bored." He said to himself, causing Lexus to give another huff so he gave a chuckle and properly settled back down.

He would either find out in the future what happened or he wouldn't, for now he would work in the here and now, and in that case it meant going back to the book. Besides, he wanted to know just what was going to happen when the protagonist found out his mother was dating the very vampire his group was planning on running out of town and it looked like he might find out the hard way by the end of this chapter. Later he could send a message to Benitoite to see if anyone else had heard about the Mirror Senshi lately.

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